EX-5.1 2 a2225217zex-5_1.htm EX-5.1

Exhibit 5.1

 

Our ref

SSY/694081-000001/8271148v3

 

Jupai Holdings Limited

10th Floor, Jin Sui Building

379 South Pudong Road

Pudong New District

Shanghai 200120

People’s Republic of China

 

23 June 2015

 

Dear Sirs

 

Jupai Holdings Limited

 

We have acted as Cayman Islands legal advisers to Jupai Holdings Limited (the “Company”) in connection with the Company’s registration statement on Form F-1, including all amendments or supplements thereto (the “Registration Statement”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended to date relating to the offering by the Company of certain American Depositary Shares (the “ADSs”) representing the Company’s ordinary shares of par value US$0.0005 each (the “Shares”).

 

We are furnishing this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement.

 

1                 Documents Reviewed

 

For the purposes of this opinion, we have reviewed only originals, copies or final drafts of the following documents:

 

1.1       The certificate of incorporation of the Company dated 13 August 2012 and the Certificate of Incorporation on Change of Name of the Company dated 3 December 2014.

 

1.2       The third amended and restated memorandum and articles of association of the Company as adopted by a special resolution passed on 16 December 2014 (the “Pre-IPO M&A”).

 

1.3       The fourth amended and restated memorandum and articles of association of the Company as conditionally adopted by a special resolution passed on 15 June 2015 and effective immediately prior to the completion of the Company’s initial public offering of the Shares represented by the ADSs (the “IPO M&A”).

 

1.4       The written resolutions of the directors of the Company dated 15 June 2015 (the “Directors’ Resolutions”).

 

1.5       The written resolutions of the shareholders of the Company dated 15 June 2015 (the “Shareholders’ Resolutions”).

 

1.6       A certificate from a director of the Company, a copy of which is attached hereto (the “Director’s Certificate”).

 

1.7       A certificate of good standing dated 12 June 2015, issued by the Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands (the “Certificate of Good Standing”).

 


 

1.8       The Registration Statement.

 

2                 Assumptions

 

The following opinions are given only as to, and based on, circumstances and matters of fact existing and known to us on the date of this opinion letter.  These opinions only relate to the laws of the Cayman Islands which are in force on the date of this opinion letter.  In giving these opinions we have relied (without further verification) upon the completeness and accuracy of the Director’s Certificate and the Certificate of Good Standing.  We have also relied upon the following assumptions, which we have not independently verified:

 

2.1       Copy documents or drafts of documents provided to us are true and complete copies of, or in the final forms of, the originals.

 

2.2       The genuineness of all signatures and seals.

 

2.3       There is nothing contained in the minute book or corporate records of the Company (which we have not inspected) which would or might affect the opinions set out below.

 

2.4       There is nothing under any law (other than the law of the Cayman Islands) which would or might affect the opinions set out below.

 

3                 Opinion

 

Based upon the foregoing and subject to the qualifications set out below and having regard to such legal considerations as we deem relevant, we are of the opinion that:

 

3.1       The Company has been duly incorporated as an exempted company with limited liability and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the Cayman Islands.

 

3.2       The authorised share capital of the Company, with effect immediately prior to the completion of the Company’s initial public offering of the Shares represented by the ADSs, will be US$500,000 divided into (i) 600,000,000 ordinary shares of a nominal or par value of US$0.0005 each and (ii) 400,000,000 shares of a nominal or par value of US$0.0005 each of such class or classes (howsoever designated) as the board of directors of the Company may determine in accordance with Articles 6 and 7 of the IPO M&A.

 

3.3       The issue and allotment of the Shares have been duly authorised and when allotted, issued and paid for as contemplated in the Registration Statement, the Shares will be legally issued and allotted, fully paid and non-assessable. As a matter of Cayman law, a share is only issued when it has been entered in the register of members (shareholders).

 

3.4       The statements under the caption “Taxation” in the prospectus forming part of the Registration Statement, to the extent that they constitute statements of Cayman Islands law, are accurate in all material respects and that such statements constitute our opinion.

 

4                 Qualifications

 

In this opinion the phrase “non-assessable” means, with respect to shares in the Company, that a shareholder shall not, solely by virtue of its status as a shareholder, be liable for additional assessments or calls on the shares by the Company or its creditors (except in exceptional circumstances, such as involving fraud, the establishment of an agency relationship or an illegal

 

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or improper purpose or other circumstances in which a court may be prepared to pierce or lift the corporate veil).

 

Except as specifically stated herein, we make no comment with respect to any representations and warranties which may be made by or with respect to the Company in any of the documents or instruments cited in this opinion or otherwise with respect to the commercial terms of the transactions the subject of this opinion.

 

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the reference to our name under the headings “Enforceability of Civil Liabilities” and “Legal Matters” and elsewhere in the prospectus included in the Registration Statement.  In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we come within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Rules and Regulations of the Commission thereunder.

 

Yours faithfully

 

/s/ Maples and Calder

Maples and Calder

 

Encl

 

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